Chapter 15-Japan Flashcards
What pressures from the outside lead to the end of isolation in 1853?
Commodore Perry sailed into their land with many different boats. Perry sent a letter requesting trade, the protection of shipwrecked sailers and right to buy coal for ships.
What pressures from the outside lead to the end of isolation in 1854?
Commodore Perry returned with more troops. This time he and the representatives of the shogun signed the Treaty of Kanagawa. It opened two Japanese ports. It established a US consulate in Japan and accepted the demands for the shipwrecked sailers and coal.
What pressures from outside lead to the end of isolation in 1858?
A commercial treaty giving further trading rights to the US was signed. They also signed similar treaties with England, France, the Netherlands, and Russia.
What pressures from inside Japan lead to the end of isolation?
The loss of respect for the shogunate and an uprising against the inefficiency and corruption of its officials.
What was marked as the beginning of the Meiji period?
The emperor was given all the power again.
What were the goals of the Meiji leaders?
To create a strong central government that could unite the country and rule it effectively.
To create a form of government closer to the democracies of the West.
What were the terms of the Five Charter Oath?
Assemblies will be held and matters will be decided by public discussion.
The class system will be demolished.
Anyone can have whatever job they want.
Bad practices of the past will be discontinued.
Knowledge of the outside world will be deemed out to help Japan.
What changes affected the daimyo?
The emperor encouraged them to turn over their land to the state.
What changes affected the samurai?
The samurai system was abolished by the government. At first they were given a tax free income but it did not last long.
What new freedoms were given to commoners?
They were allowed to choose where they would live and what job they wanted.
In the 1880s, what values did the Japanese education system empathize.
Virtue Loyalty and filial piety Modesty and moderation Advance public good Promote common interest
What did not change in the Meiji period?
Traditional family patterns
Class distinctions
Rural peasants life
Education
How did production change in the West in the mid 1700s?
Machines were invented that could do the work that people had done themselves.
How did Japan attempt to adopt new technology?
They borrowed the ideas of the West. They hired people from the West to teach the Japanese how to work the machines. Once the Japanese learned from them, they sent them back.
